Tsuko yawuji steps into the chrome-bright storefront, and the door seals behind him with a soft hiss. Monitors around the room spit heavy static, while the cracked rear door leaks a knife of white light into the polished floor.
Eli Barracuda
Look who crawls back in. Best client, worst timing.
Eli Barracuda rests both hands on a counter crowded with weapon casings, data-slates, and sealed chip packs. His smirk holds, but his eyes keep flicking to the back room.
Eli Barracuda
You want ammo, a clean burner, or the kind of name that gets people disappeared?
A third figure peels out of the static near the rear door, a lean enforcer in a matte hood with a shock baton half-raised. He moves like he already knows the room's angles.
The Hooded Enforcer
Step away from the counter, Yawuji. Barracuda's ledger is closed, and so are yours.
Eli's smile thins. He shifts one hand beneath the counter, and the hidden door behind him glows brighter, as if something inside just woke up.
+ Scene Quest Added
Survive the confrontation at Eli Barracuda's shop
“Eli relax you and I get along the way. You and I have helped each other a lot. I'm your best customer. You know and listen. I'm not looking for trouble, just information”
SUCCESS (Fair Persuasion, rolled +1)
Tsuko yawuji
Eli, lower the heat. You and I have a history of mutually beneficial arrangements. I am your most consistent patron and we both know business thrives on stability, not blood on your floor.
Eli Barracuda
The kid has a point. If he dies, my overhead in cleaning fees alone ruins the week.
Eli Barracuda
Easy, Enforcer. He stays. He has been a lucrative partner for a long time.
The Hooded Enforcer
He wants to gamble on a dead man walking. Fine, let them talk before the inevitable happens.
The Hooded Enforcer
You have one minute, Barracuda. Then I finish the job.
Eli sighs, his hand retreating from under the counter to reveal a small, encrypted data-chip, which he slides across the cold steel surface toward the center of the room.
+ Scene Quest Added
Retrieve the encrypted data-chip from Eli Barracuda
− Scene Quest Removed
Survive the confrontation at Eli Barracuda's shop
+ New Item Acquired
Encrypted data-chip
“Grab the data-chip and slide toward the exit.”
SUCCESS (Superb Agility, rolled +2)
Tsuko yawuji darts in, snatches the glowing chip from the counter, and keeps moving.
The storefront door bangs open under his shoulder, and cold district air cuts through the warm spill from the rear room.
Tsuko yawuji
The chip is in hand.
Eli Barracuda
You are really making this a problem for me, Tsuko.
The Hooded Enforcer
Stop him.
Tsuko clears the threshold as the rear room glows behind him, the counter now empty where the chip sat a second ago.
Quest Complete
Retrieve the encrypted data-chip from Eli Barracuda